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Have you considered using hfile.compression, perhaps with snappy
compression?
See this thread:
http://grokbase.com/t/hbase/user/10cqrd06pc/hbase-bulk-load-script
--Suraj
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Omkar Joshi <Omkar.Joshi@lntinfotech.com>wrote:
> The background thread is here :
>
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hbase-user/201304.mbox/%3CE689A42B73C5A545AD77332A4FC75D8C1EFBE84153@VSHINMSMBX01.vshodc.lntinfotech.com%3E
>
> Following are the commands that I'm using to load files onto HBase :
>
> HADOOP_CLASSPATH=`${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase classpath`
> ${HADOOP_HOME}/bin/hadoop jar ${HBASE_HOME}/hbase-0.94.6.1.jar importtsv
> '-Dimporttsv.separator=;'
> -Dimporttsv.columns=HBASE_ROW_KEY,PRODUCT_INFO:NAME,PRODUCT_INFO:CATEGORY,PRODUCT_INFO:GROUP,PRODUCT_INFO:COMPANY,PRODUCT_INFO:COST,PRODUCT_INFO:COLOR,PRODUCT_INFO:BLANK_COLUMN
> -Dimporttsv.bulk.output=hdfs://cldx-1139-1033:9000/hbase/storefileoutput_6
> PRODUCTS hdfs://cldx-1139-1033:9000/hbase/copiedFromLocal/product_6.txt
>
> HADOOP_CLASSPATH=`${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase classpath`
> ${HADOOP_HOME}/bin/hadoop jar ${HBASE_HOME}/hbase-0.94.6.1.jar
> completebulkload hdfs://cldx-1139-1033:9000/hbase/storefileoutput_6 PRODUCTS
>
> As seen, the text files to be loaded in HBase first need to be loaded on
> HDFS. Given our infrastructure constraints/limitations, I'm getting space
> issues. The data in the text files is around 20GB + replication is
> consuming a lot of DFS.
>
> Is there a way wherein a text file can be loaded directly from the local
> file system onto HBase?
>
> Regards,
> Omkar Joshi
>
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